Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Joseph Addison
There’s a generation of people who’ve made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet. – Ian Wace
Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession. – Janet Yellen
If you’re female, and you want to express your femininity, you’re actually demonized in the ‘Free To Be… You And Me’ generation. – Jill Soloway
I feel like, with most filmmakers of my generation, I like the over-the-top stuff. I like to be wacky and really in your face. – James Wan
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. – James Buchan
South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don’t wanna move out. – Ice Cube
You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody’s lunch. – Jeb Bush
Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they’ve been around for a long time. – Jamie Dornan
We must ensure that today’s seniors’ benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce. – John Thune
Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America. – John Ridley
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don’t think it’s going to get any better. – John Denver
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. – Joseph Stiglitz
I wish I could be on ‘Politically Incorrect.’ Because Bill Maher basically dismisses teenagers, and I think I could give my generation a good name. – Julia Stiles
Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that’s as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency. – Jay Chiat
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. – Anthony Braxton
America’s Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven’t seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves – Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn’t have been able to forget their former selves. – Jaron Lanier
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled. – Jim Lee
Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that’s very old-fashioned. There’s a whole new generation of people who aren’t defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with. – Johnny Weir
I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you’ve got to get off your backside and you’ve got to do all the crap stuff, too. – Jay Kay
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social. – Angela Ahrendts
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai E. Stevenson
It’s rare enough as an older generation player that you’re 100% fit – there’s always something niggling. – Brian O’Driscoll
The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history. – Billy Graham
My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who’ve become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master’s thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn’t find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn’t read Faulkner. – Antonya Nelson